They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and even more,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Good work does not matter, because a man is judged by his worst output and another man takes all the credit of his best… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes, said Chuchundra, more sorrowfully than ever.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
